Social, Emotional and Ethical (SEE) Learning: We need to SEE beyond STEM learning
May 11, 2021By Vikram Chaudhary Financial Express May 10, 2021 Alfiya Shaikh is a Grade 9 student at the Matoshri English Medium School, Pune (run by the Akanksha Education Fund). She used to get irritated frequently, even over trivial things. Today, she has learnt how to manage her anger, cope with difficult read more →
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
May 9, 2021Foreign Policy 7 May 2021 In October 2015, China announced that a new village, called Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been established in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). In April 2020, the Communist Party secretary of the TAR, Wu Yingjie, traveled across two passes, read more →
U.S., Russia, China poke each other at U.N. Security Council
May 9, 2021Reuters 7 May 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took a veiled swipe at Russia and China on Friday during a U.N. Security Council meeting chaired by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, warning that the actions of some big powers portrays impunity to others. The meeting on multilateralism, convened read more →
Beijing accuses G7 ministers of interfering in China’s affairs
May 8, 2021Vincent Ni The Guardian 6 May 2021 China has rejected accusations of human rights abuse and economic coercion, made by G7 foreign ministers, accusing them of “blatantly meddling” in China’s internal affairs, calling their remarks groundless. “Attempts to disregard the basic norms of international relations and to create various excuses to read more →
G7 scolds China and Russia over threats, bullying, rights abuses
May 8, 2021Reuters 6 May 2021 The Group of Seven scolded both China and Russia on Wednesday, casting the Kremlin as malicious and Beijing as a bully, but beyond words there were few concrete steps aside from expressing support for Taiwan and Ukraine. Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West’s read more →
A Short Buddhist Teaching: Emptiness and Compassion as Antidotes to Destructive Emotions
May 6, 2021Science and wisdom of emotions summit blogsbloWhat You’ll Learn In this short and potent 8 minute teaching, listen as His Holiness speaks about his personal daily practice of generating bodhicitta – “altruistic awakening mind” – which is said to naturally fulfill “the benefit of oneself and others.” Explore how we read more →
China Is a Paper Dragon
May 6, 2021David Frum The Atlantic China was mentioned only four times in Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress, but it shadowed almost every line of the speech. “We’re in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century,” Biden said. His aides describe the president read more →
China Has Lost the Philippines Despite Duterte’s Best Efforts
May 5, 2021Foreign Policy 3 May 2021 Since his election in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has time and again underscored his anti-U.S. and pro-Chinese orientation. On his first trip to Beijing in 2016, he announced it was “time to say goodbye to Washington”—much to the delight of his host, Chinese President read more →
The Tibetan resistance continues
May 5, 2021Hans India After the worldwide condemnation of China’s refusal to reveal the whereabouts of the real Panchen Lama, the Chinese Communist Party, opens up to say that the Panchen Lama “is now a college grad with a stable job”. No Tibetan could be fooled into believing this lie. The real read more →
US Secretary Of State Says China Acting “More Aggressively Abroad”: Report
May 4, 2021NDTV 3 May 2021 Washington: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview that aired on Sunday that China had recently acted “more aggressively abroad” and was behaving “increasingly in adversarial ways.” Asked by CBS News’ “60 Minutes” if Washington was heading toward a military confrontation with Beijing, Blinken read more →